Dr Lance McCracken

Dr Lance M McCracken is currently Professor of Clinical Psychology, and Head of the Division of Clinical Psychology, at Uppsala University in Sweden. He has worked for more than 25 years as a clinical psychologist in chronic pain services, including 18 years in the NHS. In the year 2000 he helped start the first interdisciplinary chronic pain specialty service based on ACT in the UK.

Lance is an active clinical researcher and has published over 250 scientific articles and chapters, and two books, most of these on treatment development related to ACT and chronic pain. In 2014 he was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science and he has been designated as a “Distinguished International Affiliate” of the APA Division of Health Psychology for “Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology.” He has extensive experience in delivering clinical training workshops and has done more than 80 one-, two-, or three-day workshops around the world in the past 20 years.